“Fictitious Events and Accidental Coincidences,” the debut novel of a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Tatyana Butovskaya, takes place among the creative intelligentsia of the USSR of the 1980s. Here, “perestroika, glasnost, euphoria” are only the scenery in which yet another act of an enduring drama about women and their men is staged.
Alexandra Kamilova, an aspiring documentary director, is going through a painful and forbidden romance with a colleague, a man from the East. She believes this is “love that lasts longer than life.” Alexandra’s friends—each dealing with a midlife crisis in her own way—try to reason her, but deep down they themselves want to believe in “eternal love.”
Three women, who simultaneously find themselves at crossroads of fate, must make perhaps the hardest choice of their lives.